Prepare for some Esperanto, cardborad construction, tv and other radiation!

We say HELLO! to:
Olof and Daniel of La Loko (Copenhagen)
Cosmin of the Universite Tangente
Lottie and Anna of the University of Openess's Faculty of Physical Education (London)
Henriette, Jakob and Solvej of Copenhagen Free University and FreeUtvResearch (Copenhagen)

besides the fixed dates below, excursions and informal presentations will happen throughout the week.

W...HowWhat produces the subjects and knowledges?
Towards a critical-empirical practice.

What kind of practices can be developed out of the analysis of the
interweaved mechanisms of subject formation and knowledge production? How
can critiques of the self-identical subject and of institutionalized
knowledge production be related productively? Is it possible to produce
subversive knowledges from the position of a sovereign subject; or don?t
we rather have to risk this very sovereignty to know and live differently?
And how can such an empirical and critical practice look and feel like?

On Wednesday at 13.00 there will be an excursion to the Sammlung für Plansprachen und Esperantomuseum in the Austrian National Library. They have one of the biggest collections of Esperanto books in the world, consisting of more than 20 000 volumes. The entrance fee is Euro 2, and that will include a guided tour.

A workshop by Lottie Child and Anna Lucas from the University of Openess: sharing of knowledge between adults and kids: construct a low-fi, DIY, alternate reality using cardboard boxes and inhabit it together as active research into collaboration through play.
limited nr of participants! pls mailto contact(et)manoafreeuniversity.org - tak!

Collaborative Research - How To

Lottie Child and Anna Lucas

If I was you I‚d just relax because nobody‚s forcing you to do it, you can
just make up stuff and enjoy your selves. Just do it, it‚s by your rules.
Ask other people to join in. You can use a laptop to type out who is safe
and who is not. Or you can imagine in your head what ever you want and see
what its like. Pretend one thing is another thing. Whatever place you are
in you can pretend its somewhere else, like the kitchen can be the city.
Use towels, watches and gloves, whatever. You need at least two people. It
depends what you‚re doing but sometimes it can be fun. The best Place for
collaborative research is in the park. When you‚ve done it some one can
say "mission accomplished".

„The main characteristic of play, whether of child or adult, is not its
content but its mode. Play is an approach to action, not a form of
activity." Jerome Bruner

On Friday 15th April at the Exner Gasse Gallery, part of W...WirWissen.
Lottie Child and Anna Lucas from the University of Openess, artists
contributing to the exhibition W..wir Wissen and participating children
will construct a low-fi, DIY, alternate reality using cardboard boxes and
inhabit it together as active research into collaboration through play.
This is field work for learning and relearning forgotten modes of
approach, trying out new behaviours, problem solving, investigating,
organising ideas and suspending some of the rules of physical social
reality. For all participants it is an experiment in working on equal
terms. We will distil and synthesize what we learn from the process into a
set of tools for collaborative activity. Playing in this other reality
will create real understandings and behaviours that will remain with us,
change us and can be applied in real situations.

This is experimental research, we are prepared to be surprised, for it to
be awkward, fall apart, or even evaporate into thin air. By constructing
this situation and seeing how it plays out we‚re wondering?
Who decides who decides? In the light of Inclusivity policies in arts and
business, can people with wildly different degrees of skill and power
contribute equally? Can we remain involved during the process? Can we play
together? Will children feel they can have a stake in what happens in
society if they create a mini one and act within it? Can the ability to
collectively imagine another reality that intersects with this one be
powerful majik for social change? What kind of reality will we make?

Current UK legislation restricts adults from interacting with children in
all but the most determined settings, thus further separating and
restricting cross inspiration, through fear of bodies spiralling out of
control. Play together another World is Possible ................and
then............and then...............and then.

Jakob and Henriette will present the new danish tv station run by artist "tv-tv", with a special focus on FreeUtvResearch

tv-tv / FreeUtvResearch / Godard tv / Yo Mango

The film Vladimir and Rosa (1971) by Dziga Vertov Group will be screened from 11Uhr on.

tv-tv started just a month ago as a tv station run by artists. Formerly TV-Stop (run by political activists for over ten years), it is being broadcasted on the community tv's frequency around Copenhagen.

Another Sister Uni Meeting and Public Discussion about Strategies and
Positions of international Counter- or Free- University Projects. We
continue our Discussion from Friday last week with Participants from
K.U.U.G.E.L (Innsbruck), some people from the Freiraum or Kritische Nicht
University Collective (Vienna), UO (London), CFU and the usual Subjects from
the W..WirWissen Team: APA (Hamburg), Freie Klasse (Berlin), Informelle
Universität in Gründung (Berlin), Manoa Free Universtiy ... Also a Report on
the international Gegen- Uni Meeting which took place last weekend in
Berlin, organised from the Offene Uni Berlin will be happening.

The Questions we are going to discuss are:
Why do we relate to the term University? (Verhältnis und Bedingungen...),
Space or not Space (verschiedene Praktiken), Squatting - Inscenating -
Simulating?, Universität als Sprechakt, possible Interventions...